Tuesday, September 13, 2011

The Things I'm "About" to Accomplish

Despite my mother, grandmothers and great grandmother, I will never be a stay-at-home wife/mother, it's just not going to happen. I remember my mother trying to teach me how to sow and cross stitch and it came out looking like this:
Re-actant-ment of said cross stitch

My mother bought me dolls and my grandmother got each one of the grand daughters on christmas a new porcelain doll. I throw dolls off the top bunk bed, not the porcelains but the others. Just to see if they bounce.

My dolls never ended up this bad but dang it I didn't try

I was outside more then any of my five brothers. Once I had to start wearing a bra, which I put up a fight until the very last, I thought it was stupid to take it off at night, mostly because it was a pain to even get it on.
This isn't me but this would have been me
I never walk around a puddle. I go through it! my poor husband tries to direct me around a puddle but I still manage to go through it. It's to much fun to miss out of it.

I had boys calling at my door when I was 6 years old because I was the only girl in the neighborhood who wasn't afraid to get dirty. I remembered my mother opening our front door to find 3 little boys asking if I can come out to play. My mom who's very lady like told the boys that "I was to young to be asked out by boys yet." It was pretty funny!

In short, I'm not a girly girl nor a tom boy, I'm just an adventures person with no designs on being a stay at home and do nothing kind of person. There's nothing wrong with being a mother and wife who does stay at home. It's just not my idea, I much rather be at work and busy out side of the home. I guess I'm just not a being at home kind of person really...

This little intro was to help you understand this next part. Since I've been old enough I've worked. I always had choirs, even on the weekend (Lame Dad.) When I was 11 I started house/animal sitting for neighbors. And then when I turned 13 I started babysitting, and I still do. I was the best babysitter and the most requested one in town. I made a killing. Once we moved to South Dakota I found a job at a Nursing Home, then after working there for awhile I started work at a bakery and ref'ing soccer. Right before my 21st birthday I moved out of my parents home and from that time until I moved to New Mexico in 2006. I worked 2 jobs, babysit or went to school. At one time I worked 72 hours a week for 2 weeks and somewhere between 38-40 hours ever week. Once I landed in New Mexico I became a full time student and worked 20+ hours a week. I did that for 5 years. For the full list, Rewriting New New Chapter.

Now that I'm on a break for the unseeable future I need goals - plans - units of time - things to do. Otherwise I don't think I can guaranty yours - my husband's - my puppy's safety. So with my husband's support I've come up with a sort of list. And as I go about accomplishing this "list" I'll mark it off by posting them.

Unit 1) Clean the Apartment: Since we never really unpacked after we moved into our new apartment and the family-in-laws are coming for Thanksgiving.

Unit 2) Craft-y Things: I'm not really that crafty but I love making clothes from old clothes, like Tshirts.
www.generation-t.com
I also want to try my hand at crochet.
I haven't crochet since I was 17 and then it ended looking like a knot
Needle work.

Mine's going to be awesome
Unit 3) Memphis's Place: So our puppy Memphis has been hanging out in a crete when we go some where or we're asleep. Yet we have this little cubby where he could stay and have more room. The only reason he doesn't live there now is because there's so much junk pilled up in there. So my mission is throw away or find a place for all that junk so Memphis can have his own little place.

Unit 4) Paint + Draw = Do Art: I love painting and over the summer I was so inspired by all the creative art I saw that I'm dying to do art. I want to paint, I want to draw, and if I have time I want to display my art in a gallery. I've been asking around to see if there's a gallery where I can do that. I might have found a place but we'll see.

Apples!
Unit 5) Canada: Montreal Canada in fact. My husband has his 10 Year High School thing coming up in October and he really wants to go. We even got passport so that we can, but we have been having car issues so that's slowed us down in the buying of the tickets to get us there. I'm holding out, it's a pay week and hopefully the tickets will be at a good price and then we're off. I've never been out of the country. I really want to go.

This is my very first passport but not my last
Unit 6) Grad Schools: I really want to go to grad school and get an MFA. I'm just not sure where and in what for sure that is. So my job is to figure that out, find a place and take the GRE, which means I'll be studying for them. On the bright side of having to study my husband will be taking them and studying for them with me. He's applying to PHd programs too.

Unit 7) Run: Before I moved to New Mexico I worked out every day and once I moved here I ran every other day and worked out on the opposite days. I even run a 1/2 marathon, but now I'm lucky if I can get a yoga class or walk the puppy in. So I'm going to start running and working out again. In fact, I'm going to start training for a 1/2 marathon or better yet a full marathon. I think I can do it. I want to do it. I just need to find a marathon somewhere near. But what's going to be really challenge is running a full 26. something miles because to run the whole of the city of Las Vegas, NM is 5.5 miles. (Of course that doesn't include the the part of town going out of town toward Wal-Mart.) I will have to run around Las Vegas like 5 time. That's going to be fun.

I have an iPhone so I can cover most of these gadgets 
I have a lot planned but I also have until I find a job or we move in August 2012. I'll keep you posted on how this list turns out.

Enjoy!

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Rewriting the New New Chapter

The last five years in review... the recap.
( I feel like a recap is in order for what I'm about to write about in my next few blogs. So bear with me. )


Semesters:
Fall '06} Ben and I moved to Las Vegas, NM and started classes at New Mexico Highlands University. I took my very first Media Arts class. Ref soccer and worked for a grant to study how public school PE programs where doing. Christmas in Tennessee. New Years in San Antonio.


Spring '07} Planned our wedding and enjoyed the an enormous about of stress but A'd all my classes except Psych 101. Lame! I got a C. Ref soccer. Trained and ran my first 1/2 marathon.


Summer '07} Got Married! Went to Disney World! Came back and started working for the Boys & Girls Club in Santa Fe, NM. And took my first English Comp class.


Fall '07} I enter the exciting field of Videography with my first ever documentary, "A Trip to India." This film lands me a my first of many Summer Internship. Ref soccer. I was in a play as Rambo. Plus drove all night to my cousin's wedding in Houston, TX. Christmas in Tennessee again but this time as husband and wife.


Spring '08} Started working on SITE Santa Fe 7th Biennial, "Lucky Number Seven." Did outstanding in my Color Theory class. Ref soccer


Summer '08} Spent a month and half in Santa Fe, NM working on Lucky Number 7 day and night. Started my job at Traveler's Cafe as a barista. And took an online literature class.


Fall '08} Enrolled in two major classes, Advance Design Practice (almost won a trip to Boston but found out I lost after staying up for 24 hours to print. Not fun.) and Design Projects for the Community (Almas da le Plaza. Nuff said). TA'd Color Theory. Went to the NMAM conference for the first time. Started couching a youth soccer team with my husband. First Christmas alone, just Ben and I.


Spring '09} PICT! And a another play. Couched soccer.


Summer '09} Went to Disney World again! Two Summer Internships.


Fall '09} Started my minor in fine arts and took ADP 2. This time I won the trip to DC. Couched soccer. Visit my family in South Dakota for Christmas.


Spring '10} Took my final core classes and Character/Stop-motion Animation. Entered my teams stop-motion film into the 3 Minute Film Festival. It was among 40 of like 300 films chosen to be screen at the festival. Daedalus & Icarus. Couched soccer.


Summer '10} Moved into our new apartment. Ben's little brother came and stayed with us. Took two summer classes, one in green screen effects and another/internship where I helped create digital eBooks. Spent two weeks in August helping my great grandmother in Houston, TX recover from a broken hip, stroke/heart attack. Brother's wedding in South Dakota.


Fall '10} Got a puppy! Took my first web class and screen writing. Applied and was awarded the Seabury Scholarship. I worked on padding my grad school applications by working on a project in type movement. At the time the Media Arts dept. didn't offer any classes in kinetic typography. It was band new'ish and had to teach myself, more or less. Couched soccer. Got called up to do jury duty. Drove to Mississippi for Christmas.


Spring '11} Final semester at NMHU starts. 10 snow days, 3 days with out water because of frozen pipes.  Still doing jury duty. Took Distributed Network Production. Learned to build apps etc... Social Tracking, and might have found a new calling. Was asked to carry the flag into the grad ceremony for the arts and sciences. My parents surprised me by showing up for my graduation. I am the first person in my family to have a college degree. 


Also, my husband and I found out we were going to have a baby but then we lost it. It's been rough.


Summer '11} After the semester was over I flow with some classmates from DNP class to LA to take part in LAYAR Days. It was a lecture/workshop on AR. I signed up with AmeriCorp, and interviewed and started a job/internship with SITE Santa Fe. I worked at SITE since I got back from LA (end of May) to September. 


Fall '11} I'm doing nothing right now. I need a break. I am still working at the Traveler's Cafe and doing some freelance web work, cleaning the apartment and painting. Trying to get creative again before I head off to grad school.